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having been very keen over the last few years, I'm gradually feeling his work is absolute genius, particularly 'let it come down' as of late. I hadnt been especially keen on this or 'ladies and gentlemen' as albums (odd cracking tune, but just never made it through them) (love 'pure phaze',Lazer Guided Melodies' and 'Amazing Grace' overall). Recently I listened to 'Let It Come Down', and instead of sounding quite proggy and messy, it's more of a work of genius gospel mod punk sonic revivalism to these ears.

The upshot of this is list your top five pierce related songs:

1. Lay Back In The Sun
2. Do It All Over Again(I was very ambivalent to this tune until last week, although I must say it could easily be 'The 12 Steps' or 'Won't Get to Heaven (this state I'm In)'-
3.Shine A Light
4.Revolution
5. Lord Let It Rain On Me.

I'm disproportionately happy about this. I've always liked the Spiritualized/Spacemen 3 stuff I've heard, it's just it now sounds like some of the best music i've ever heard.

I've never been a big fan, but everytime there's a Spiritualized/Spacemen 3 disc in the used bins I buy it. Cop Shoot Cop is good I remember, yeah. Maybe this is one of those "takes a few spins" bands. You've inspired me to fish them out. Tomorrow.

PS Home safe and sound are ya mourningspider? It's still 72 F, hazy sun shine...well, not now cos it's midnight, but same ol' samey. How's the mother country? Glad to be home?

Am indeed back in the UK, applying for lots of drone retail jobs again. I'm glad to be home now, San Diego made me appreciate a lot of the good things about the UK and vice versa. I think neither is better or worse, but the positive and negative things are really different, which is the beauty of the experience. I've also spent the last week seeing multiple people for the first time in a year, which has given me a slightly artificial week.
Still, I'm glad that i dont have to say "nice meeting you" again for a while but I really, really... miss a burrito, couldnt really ask for more.
I hope to return for a week in september (Sheffield mate's marrying in vegas, so i might as well see socal)

Anyway's spiritualized are a definitely an aquired taste, I'm literally loving tunes I didnt like much first time round

I have to say I prefer their older stuff, there's just something about some of the new stuff that i just can't get. I'm a big fan, don't get me wrong, I've been to more spiritualized gigs than any other, but my fave work is the Lazer Guided Melodies stuff.

hailing from rugby and having played in bands with ex-spacemen i am always quite critical of any new stuff that comes out. Like Sterling Roswell and Cronic Spoon, I think that Spiritualized lost their edge a long time ago and maybe the incessant drug use is starting to take it's toll. But that's just my opinion, I rock a lot harder these days!

Spiritualized are a fantastic live band and have dobe very good albums.
But for me, it's nearly imposible to find 5 tracks that are 'better' than the others. They worked so much better as an album than as separate tracks.

We do not like to be negative. Therefore we will merely note that while some of their records are barely tolerable, when we were present while they played live, we were tearing all four of our ears off with the mindnumbing self indulgent tedium of the experience. Jason Pierce does not interest us."